Administrators at a Carthage nursing home where eight people were killed in a shooting rampage knew there was a threat but did nothing to secure the facility, according to a civil lawsuit filed against the nursing home on behalf of the families of four people killed during the March 29, 2009, shooting.
The Carthage police officer who stopped a shooting rampage at a nursing home two years ago has left the police force to become a state trooper.
It was a year ago Monday that the small town of Carthage was shocked by the news that eight people were killed during a rampage inside the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center.
"Countless" people have sent threatening letters to be passed along to Robert Stewart, who is charged with killing eight people at a Carthage nursing home in March.
Nearly four months after a shooting rampage claimed eight lives at a Carthage nursing home, people from around the world continue to express support for the victims.
The police officer who stopped a shooting rampage at a Carthage nursing home is back at work.
Pinelake Healthcare and Rehab Center held a memorial Sunday to remember those who lost their lives in a deadly shooting last month.
Pinelake Healthcare and Rehab Center will hold a memorial Sunday to remember those who lost their lives March 29 in a deadly shooting, and to honor those who kept the bloodshed from being worse.
A Moore County grand jury handed up 14 indictments Monday against Robert Stewart, who is accused of killing eight people at a Carthage nursing home and injuring three others.
The police officer credited for ending a deadly shooting rampage at a Carthage nursing home last month said he was just reacting to the situation when he brought down the alleged gunman.
Cpl. Justin Garner underwent surgery Tuesday morning to remove two of three shotgun pellets lodged in his leg.
Robert Kenneth Stewart told a hospital nurse that he didn't remember anything about the March 29 shooting at a Carthage nursing home that killed eight people, according to search warrants unsealed Monday.
The police officer who stopped a man on a shooting rampage in a North Carolina nursing home says he first thought the emergency call was a misunderstanding, but knew it was serious when he saw a car with shattered windows in the parking lot.
A week after eight people were shot to death in a Carthage nursing home, residents are still trying to come to terms with the tragedy. Many gathered at churches Sunday to pray for peace.
Family and friends attended funeral services Saturday for 98-year-old Louise De Kler, who was killed during a mass shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehab center in Carthage in Moore County on March 29.
FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital’s emergency room treated six patients from the incident, including the alleged shooter.
White ribbons representing symbols of hope now adorn the small town of Carthage to honor the victims of Sunday's nursing home massacre.
Doctors said Jerry Avant Jr., the only employee at Pinelake Health and Rehab to die in Sunday's shooting rampage, was shot more than two dozen times trying to shield others from the gunman.
The Carthage police chief said earlier this week that investigators are looking into whether a shooting rampage at a local nursing home could be a case of domestic violence. Although investigators have not publicly offered a motive for the crimes, the alleged gunman's estranged wife, Wanda Stewart, was working at the center when the shootings occurred.
The First Baptist Church began a program Thursday to help the community deal with the recent shooting deaths at Pinelake Nursing Home.
When a friend called Randy Garner Sunday to tell him that his son, Carthage Police Officer Justin Garner, had been shot at a nursing home in the line of duty, he thought the worst.
The estranged wife of a man accused of killing eight people at a Carthage nursing home says she tried to apologize to the victims' families. "The ones that would speak to me, I told them I was sorry. I wish it had been me, instead of them," she says.
Tessie Garner, 75, was one of eight people killed at Pinelake Health and Rehab Sunday morning, when police say, a man shot 11 people.
Mental health professions are helping emergency responders, residents and staff cope after a gunman killed seven patients and a nurse at a Carthage nursing home on Sunday.
Margaret Neal said Tuesday that her daughter, a nurse's assistant at the Carthage nursing home where eight people were fatally shot Sunday, survived by hiding in a bathroom inside a locked area for Alzheimer's patients.
A relative who did not want to be identified said the death penalty was a topic of the 90-minute meeting about Sunday's Carthage nursing home shooting rampage.
For the small, close-knit town of Carthage – population about 2,100 – nearly everyone has been affected in some way by Sunday's nursing home massacre, and so many are struggling with the question: "Why?"
State and local investigators offered little public insight Monday into why a gunman went on a rampage that killed seven patients and a nurse at a Moore County nursing home on Sunday morning.
The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association has established a fund to benefit family members of eight people killed Sunday in a nursing home shooting rampage.
Nursing homes are relatively secure, and a rampage such as the one that killed eight people at a Moore County nursing home says more about the killer's mental state than the safety of nursing homes, industry representatives say.
Detectives are investigating whether a gunman accused of killing eight people may have picked a Carthage nursing home as his target because his estranged wife worked there, police said Monday.
A man accused of opening fire Sunday inside a Moore County nursing home faces eight counts of first-degree murder, Carthage Police Chief Chris McKenzie said.
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